Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
GARY OLDMANI’m not the best audience for that because I’m not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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I’m almost incapable of lying. I’d be a terrible spy.
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If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would’ve liked to have been John Lennon.
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for ’12 Years a Slave’ you were a racist.
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You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.
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I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in ‘Batman 2’.
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.
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So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.
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I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it’s a constitution that’s the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it’s the most generous nation in the world.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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There are roles that you chase sometimes.
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I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There’s still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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